Books We've Read Recently

Here are some of the books our class has read recently. Ask us about them!

More math games to play!

Have you been playing Sushi Monster for a while and you need a new challenge? Try these games out! Some of them are decidedly difficult, especially at the harder levels. That's ok, because the students in room 204 know that having to struggle makes your brain grow more connections!

Ten Frame Math -
Ten frames are a great way to visualize numbers, especially if you are working on your tens facts. Play around with the levels here.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3565

Gate -
In this game, you use place value to defeat the shadows, hopefully unlocking the mystery of the gate. At first, you will probably just add ones, tens, and hundreds to make the numbers, but as you get better and the game gets harder, you will build bigger numbers and subtract, too. At the higher levels, you have to use decimals, too, which we don't talk about in second grade, but you can probably figure out how they work as you play the game. Good luck, this is a hard one!
http://www.brainpop.com/games/gate/

Battleship Numberline -
Enemy ships are located somewhere on the number line. As you play this game, you will work on locating whole numbers (and fractions at the harder levels) on a number line.
http://www.brainpop.com/games/battleshipnumberline/

Lure of the Labrynth -
What on earth is going on in these three games? You are given very little information about how to play or how to solve this enormously challenging math puzzles, but keep trying things out and you'll pick them up on the tenth or eleventh try. These were designed for middle schoolers, so don't be discouraged if you have no idea what is going on at first.
http://www.brainpop.com/games/lureofthelabyrinthemployeecafeteria/
http://www.brainpop.com/games/lureofthelabyrinthmineshaft/
http://www.brainpop.com/games/lureofthelabyrinthemployeelounge/

Computer programming is difficult!

We have been using the website code.org to learn how to write computer code. It is difficult, but we are learning a lot.

The evil pumpkin

by Justin, blogger of the week

We cut this evil pumpkin from the school garden and it struck back!!

This pumpkin knows how to write words but he can not write so good. He wrote in the morning  message sincerely your MEEN teachers and he also wrote this on a piece of paper kan you reed this pleez. If you were to call him something I would call him evil and mean. People think he used his stem to write. If you see this pumpkin call 911 or report to the FBI.

Math game!

Our favorite math game right now is a fact practice game called Sushi Monster,

In this game, you use addition facts to serve an angry monster sushi!

This game is available for the iPad, and it is free!

Read the Common Sense Media review to learn more.

Book Report Project Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13 No school!	14 No school!	15 Due Date: Choose a book!	16 Start reading the book	17	18
19	20 Due Date: Read the book!	21 Start writing the first draft	22	23	24	25
26	27 Due Date: First draft written	28	29	30	31 Due Date: Whole project!

Maps: Part Three

Next, we thought about how we could draw a picture of our school. This is a very difficult task, made more difficult by Mr. MacLellan's insistence that we couldn't leave the classroom to look! We had to try and remember where everything was, just from our brains.

Here's what we drew. Some people chose an overhead or bird's eye view. Other people chose a side view, as if you could look through the walls. Some people did a combination, using elements of both views combined with other pictorial elements. See if you can tell which views are which!